As some of you may know, I had a tough family crisis arise in the weeks prior to my grade 8 exam. eeek.
You may have foudn the copy of the letter I posted on here, and now I'm back with my actual marks!

Scarlatti: 24

C.P.E Bach: 23

Debussy: 21 (Quite upset about this, thought I'd have got higher!)

Scales: 16 (Is this out of 20 or 30?)

Aural: 15

Sight Reading: 18

Let me know how the rest of you got on, particuarly Grade 8ers!

Jess
xxx

Well done! 21

Car Expert

Well done

Not bad considering i couldn't finish Eb Major thirds staccato

Well done Jess

Fantastic well done

Well done! You know how I did from the other thread in the students forum

If my maths is right that makes 117.

1st - Congratulations!!!
2nd - Under better conditions the other 3 for a merit might well have been yours, so commiserations.

well done!

Congrats

Yay!!! Well done.

Congratulations

CONGRATULATIONS!

Hey, well done! Debussy is a hard one to do. Very impressed with the sight reading. I remember when i got my Grade 8 results, I was SO SO happy! I couldn't believe it at that time because I was in the middle of school exams and was well at all so I was very disappointed after the exam.... till I got my results!

But nevertheless, CONGRATS again. G8 is a very big achievement.

Got my Grade 5 result, eventually!!! It's kind of bad: 117. Edit: Sorry, but 117 is bad for me, and I've been practising ever so ever so hard...
My teacher + head of music both expected a distinction but apparently (well, you can never prove it, can you?) she marked all the pianists down. Her comments don't match up with her marks. But anyway, I'm a little shocked / upset. I really at least wanted a mid merit level.
But on the positive side, I did pass.
Be back with the details soon...

Congratulations both of you!

~Wobby~

Congrats all of you!!
Btw, can you guys post up the comment written by examiners for all your the pieces, scales, aural, and
sight reading , oh and also general comment please?
I'm much appreciate it!!
thanks!

Congratlations!

Will do when I get my marking sheet << not at you, at my teacher!

Wow, that's asking alot. If I could read the dreadful handwriting of the examiner, then there would have been a possibility of posting the comments.

EDIT - they are now posted on a seperate thread. (managed to decipher it somehow).

Well done all!

Thanks,
I'll put down some of the comments.

Grade 5 Piano.
Les Carillons: 19/30 (I FAILED THIS PIECE )
Taken at a brisk tempo with some idea of the style though a slower speed would have benefited. The quaver passages were *unreadable word - something like skiniped or skimped, definitely not skipped* disturbing the rhythmic caution and accuracy.

Study in Ab: 23/30
Some idea of the lyricism and dynamic details were often overdone for the style. (I ask you, does she want me to play it with no feeling at all or something?)

New Orleans Nightfall: 25/30
The pulse was well judged and contrast well managed. The main theme was clearly profiled though the dynamics were too exaggerated in the final section particularly.

Scales: 17/21
Patterns well known.

Sight reading: 18/21
Mainly well read.

Aural tests: 15/18
A good reply in all but some errors in A.

Total: 117

Additional comments: Some encouraging signs in the playing today. Les Carillons denied you an overall merit.

MY VIEW: I don't like her! But time to move on

AAAAAARRRRGH
I soooo hate music examiners' writing!! I mean, you can't read half of it, it's all scribbly!!! Does anyone know what I mean, or is it just the examiners that I get

Well can someone interpret my brother's general comment please:
"...now you can afford to relax and let the music do the talking"

EH??

I would take it to mean something like it's obvious that he put a lot of effort into his exam music and plays well but needs to worry less about technical things to get a better musical sound.

I think perhaps sometimes examiners comments are inappropriate (like some of mine this time) but mostly they're constructive. I'm trying to be positive...

Why do you think the comments in your exam were inappropriate, pianoboe?

Ooh that sounds really weird now looking back. May have to change it. My bad!
I guess not inappropriate but just weird - about the dynamics, I thought I didn't put enough feeling and dynamics in, not too much...
Sorry.